| Robin Fisher |
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| Robin Fisher, lyric coloratura
soprano, has performed to critical acclaim in such cities as Paris,
Vienna, Prague, Hamburg, Chicago and Dallas. Press reviews remark on
her “amazingly precise coloratura, melting diminuendos, splendid high
notes and delightful musicality” (Opernwelt) and her “mature timbre and
total self-assurance…. an extremely exciting singer-actress”
(Westdeutsche Zeitung). In 2008, Robin Fisher performed Bach’s Motet “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, in Washington. Following this was a performance of the Dvorak Mass in D with the Napa Valley Chorale and a Broadway concert with the Bear Valley Music Festival. This season she will make her debut with Sacramento Opera as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and her debut with Townsend Opera Players as Pamina in The Magic Flute. She sings the soprano solos in Mendelssohn's Elijah with the UC Davis Symphony and Chorus at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on March 8, and the following weekend in a program of late-Renaissance music from England with the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols at Sacramento State University on March 13 and at Las Positas College on March 14. With the Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra, she sings an all-Bach concert at the Mondavi Center on March 22. In May, Fisher will turn to more contemporary repertoire as she performs Barber's Knoxville, Summer 1915 with the orchestra of the Academy at All Hallows in downtown Sacramento. Ms. Fisher appeared in Europe with the Sacramento Choral Society performing works by Haydn and Dvorak in the cities of Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Of her performance in concert at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts (Davis, CA) in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony, the Sacramento Bee critic found “Soprano soloist Robin Fisher was thrilling…” Other performed oratorio repertoire includes Mozart's C-minor Mass and Requiem, Haydn's Creation, Handel's Messiah, Fauré’s Requiem, as well as works by Bach and Schubert with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. She was a featured soloist in the North American premiere of works by Spanish composer Francisco Courcelle with the Orchestra of New Spain in Dallas. Ms. Fisher's many recital appearances in both Europe and the United States attest to her love for the art song. A compact disc recording of sacred American art songs called “God be in my Heart” in collaboration with Dalton Baldwin was issued in 2003 on the label “Global Praise”. She received the coveted Artist's Diploma cum laude, from the University of Vienna. Her students are performers throughout the World, and she is in demand as adjudicator and teacher. Ms. Fisher is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at California State University, Sacramento. 11/10/08 |